Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impending drama. Newsmen swarmed, all 250 public seats were filled early, and standees wedged themselves along the sidelines. All had come to see what promised to be the most exciting congressional hearing since Robert Kennedy, as counsel of a Senate subcommittee investigating labor racketeering, matched acid insults with Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa...
...latest in a series of bloody episodes that have marked a twelve-week strike by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters against Alabama's Bowman Transportation Co., a medium-sized trucking concern. Turning down the union's demands on wages and working conditions, the firm hired non-Teamster drivers. Since then, Bowman trucks have been shot at more than 70 times in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina; four drivers besides Warren have been wounded. More than 20 trucks have been fired at while laboring up a steep grade on U.S. Highway 278 near Piedmont...
...weary scholar in search of truth can no longer "Swing--to the Real Thing." Harvard, and all of Cambridge, have been left open-mouthed and empty-handed by a dire lack of Coca-Cola. This unprecedented occurrence is due to a two-week-old Teamster strike against Coke...
...nuptial marathon that blended Hamtramck zest with Grosse Pointe catering, Barbara Hoffa, 23, green-eyed daughter of Teamster Boss Jimmy, married Robert Crancer, 24, son of St. Louis' Valley Steel Products Co. President Lester A. Crancer. After a Methodist ceremony, Mother Josephine Poszywak Hoffa called the shots according to the traditions of her Polish ancestors. Beginning with a 2 p.m. wedding breakfast-filet mignon and champagne for 300 at Detroit's Latin Quarter-the festivities continued with a 6 p.m. reception at which 750 guests danced to the music of a polka band and gorged on such delicacies...
Mediating between militants who itched to wage a raiding rumble on Teamster turf and a growing number of appeasers ready to welcome Jimmy Hoffa back into the fold, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany offered readmission without "head busting" to Hoffa dissidents who have seen the light. As for Jimmy himself, Meany charged that the Teamster hierarchy was "more than ever under the influence of corrupt elements," would continue excommunicated until Hoffa "does as Saul of Tarsus done-go off into the wilderness for a year and repent...